Curriculum Vitae SCOTT H. BENNETT Professor of History Georgian Court University Department of History 900 Lakewood Ave. Lakewood, N.J. 08701 Tel (O): 732-987-2347 Email: <[email protected]> TEACHING FIELDS RESEARCH FIELDS American History Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism Contemporary Global History Nonviolence & Pacifism Transnational History War, Peace, & Society America & the World Dissent, Protest & Reform Social & Political Movements American Radical Biography Conscientious Objectors EDUCATION ● PhD History (1998). Rutgers University—New Brunswick ● MA Educational Administration (1990). College of New Jersey ● MA History (1985). Florida State University ● BA History / Secondary Ed. (Magna Cum Laude). University of Central Florida EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION ● Georgian Court University: Chair, Department of History & Politics (2015-present); Professor of history (2010--present); associate professor (2005-10); assistant professor (2001-05). ● Leiden University, The Netherlands (Spring 2014). Fulbright professor. ● Chicago State University (1999-2001). Assistant professor of history. ● Rutgers University—Camden (1998-99). Visiting lecturer of history. ● Educational Testing Service (1996-98). Consultant on assessment. ● Community College of Philadelphia (1998). Adjunct professor of history. ● Camden County College (1998). Adjunct professor of history. ● Rutgers University—New Brunswick (1995-97). Graduate teaching assistant. 1 ● East Brunswick High School (1991-94). History teacher; AP history; Student Council mentor. ● College of New Jersey—Mallorca, Spain (1991). Assistant director of Mallorca Summer Program. This program brought 150+ educators from international schools in 40-50 nations together to pursue graduate study in education. ● Copenhagen International School, Denmark (1986-91). History teacher; administrator; chair of teachers’ council; faculty representative to board; supervised student teachers. ● International School of Torino, Italy (1984-86). History teacher; athletic director; initiated sport exchanges with schools in Italy, France, & Switzerland. ● American School of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador (1981-84). Chair of social studies department; history and English teacher; faculty representative to board. PUBLICATIONS Books (4) ● Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movements, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), edited by Mitchell K. Hall, with consulting editors Scott H. Bennett, Justus D. Doenecke, & Valarie H. Ziegler. Contributed 13 entries ranging from 500 to 3,500 words each (13,500 words total). ● Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader, co-edited with Chuck F. Howlett, with a 36-pp. introduction (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014). ● Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), edited with a 62-pp. archival-based introduction). [Introduction reprinted in Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past (Honolulu: Center for Nonkilling History, 2010), pp. 29-96.] ● Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003, reprint 2013). Current Book Projects (3) ● “Igal Roodenko: Conscientious Objector and Nonviolent Activist: From the ‘Good War’ through the Cold War” (manuscript in final stages). ● “Radical Pacifist and Democratic Socialist: David McReynolds and Cold War Dissent.” ● “World Class: American Teachers and International Schools—An Oral History.” 2 Journal Articles / Book Chapters (9) ● “World War I Conscientious Objectors: Conscience and Resistance.” In The Cambridge History of American Great War Literature and Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, Spring 2020), edited Mark Van Wienen & Tim Dayton. [In press] ● “Shell Shock in Context: A Conversation with Harriet Hyman Alonso and Adam Hochschild.” In Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research 41 (January 2016): 87-105. ● “Conscience, Comrades, & the Cold War: The Korean War Draft Resistance Cases of Socialist Pacifists David McReynolds and Vern Davidson.” In Peace & Change 38 (January 2013): 83-120. ● “Introduction” to Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). Reprinted in Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past (Honolulu: Center for Nonkilling History, 2010), pp. 29-96. ● “American Pacifism, the ‘Greatest Generation’ and World War II,” pp. 259-292. Chapter in Kurt Piehler & Sidney Pash, ed., The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Homefront (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010). ● “‘Free American Political Prisoners’: Pacifist Activism and Civil Liberties, 1945-1948.” In Journal of Peace Research 40 (July 2003): 413-433. ● “Workers/Draftees of the World Unite! Carlos A. Cortez Redcloud Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel, WWII CO, & IWW Artist/Bard,” pp. 12-56. In Victor Sorell, ed., Carlos A. Cortez Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel & Artist (Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 2002). ● “Radical Pacifism and the General Strike Against War: Jessie Wallace Hughan, the Founding of the War Resisters League, and the Socialist Origins of Secular Radical Pacifism in America.” In Peace & Change 26 (July 2001): 352-373. ● “Socialist Pacifism and Nonviolent Social Revolution: The War Resisters League and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” In Peace & Change 25 (January 2000): 102-128. Minor Articles / Book Reviews (42) ● Review of David L. Parsons, Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam War Era (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2107). In Peace & Change 45 (January 2020): 158-160. ● “Abraham Kaufman”; “Anti-Enlistment League”; “Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors”; “Committee for Nonviolent Revolution”; David E. McReynolds”; “Evan Thomas”; “Gene Sharp”; “James Peck”; “Jessie Wallace Hughan”; “No Conscription League”; “Pacifist Teachers League”; “War Resisters League”; & “World War II Antiwar Movement.” In Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movements, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), edited by Mitchell K. Hall, with consulting editors Scott H. Bennett, Justus D. Doenecke, & Valarie H. Ziegler. 3 ● “Foreword” in Chuck F. Howlett, 20th Century Peace & Justice Activism (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2016). ● “Foreword: The Wounds and the Legacies of World War I,” Peace & Change 41 (January 2016): 7-12. ● Review of Jesse Stellato, ed., Not In Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the Present (Penn State University Press, 2012). In The Historian, 76:4 (December 2014): 832-33. ● Review of Lawrence S. Wittner, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual (University of Tennessee Press, 2012). In Fellowship, 77:7-12 ([Summer] 2013), pp. 41-42. ● “Teaching at Copenhagen International School in the 1980s.” In CIS Footprints: 50 Years Special Edition (Copenhagen: CIS, August 2013), pp. 22-23. ● Review of Nicholas A. Krehbiel, General Lewis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection during World War II (University of Missouri Press, 2011). In Journal of Mennonite Studies 31 (June 2013): 239-41. ● Review of Ozgur Hezgar Cinar & Coskun Usterci, ed., Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society (London: Zed Books, 2009). In Peace Review, 23 (January 2011): 118-22. ● Review of Carl Mirra, The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010). In Peace & Change 36 (April 2011): 309-11. ● “Secular Perspectives of Conscientious Objection” (Vol. 1, pp. 463-64) and “War Resisters’ International” (Vol. 4, pp. 357-58). In The International Encyclopedia of Peace, 4 vols. Edited by Nigel Young. (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). ● Review of Lawrence S. Wittner, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Disarmament Movement (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. In History News Network (online history magazine), posted 26 July 2009. Re-posted on H-Peace, 11 August 2009. ● Review of Sharon E. Nepstad, Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). In Times Higher Education (London), 1 January 2009, p. 55. ● Review of Marian Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). In Peace & Change 33 (July 2008): 454-57. ● Review of Devi Prasad, War Is A Crime Against Humanity: The Story of War Resisters’ International (London: War Resisters’ International, 2005). In Peace & Change 32 (October 2007): 608-11. ● Roundtable, "What's Next for the Peace Movement?" (Silver City, NM & Washington, DC: Foreign Policy in Focus, a joint project of the International Relations Center and the Institute for Policy Studies; 10 May 2007). Posted at <http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4223>. ● “Peter Brock: Remembrance.” In Peace & Change 32 (April 2007): 248-49. 4 ● Review of Peter Brock, ed., “These Strange Criminals”: An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). In H-Peace January 2006. ● “Dissent in World War I and World War II,” Vol. 3, pp. 41-44. In John S. Resch, ed., Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 2005). ● “Introduction,”